Re: ANNOUNCE: Guix on Aarch64 !!

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 04:32:18PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> Its my pleasure to announce that guix now has all the code necessary to
> support aarch64! Currently support is limited to the core-updates
> branch, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem, since currently
> everything needs to be built from source.
> 
> For those interested in the numbers, I built (at least) 13 copies of the
> bootstrap binaries while attempting to pin down bugs. I'm using an
> Odroid-C2 with Debian as a base and a 32GB SD card. After supplying
> dependencies and running bootstrap and configure, make takes about 25
> minutes. It takes almost 16 hours, starting from an empty store, to
> build all the way to hello. The board has a base of 2GB of RAM, about
> 256 MB of which is used for graphics, but I somehow managed to enable zram,
> which I'm guessing helped.

Wow, awesome! I'm going to try it in QEMU.

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